Chapter 462 - 462 462 The Gentleman Among the Flowers

Chapter 462: Chapter 462 The Gentleman Among the Flowers Chapter 462: Chapter 462 The Gentleman Among the Flowers The air suddenly froze.

Liang Feiyan stared at Jiang Fan with wide eyes, her mouth opening and closing, but she couldn’t speak at all.

He couldn’t express his current feelings with words anymore.

Back then, the three of them marveled at the mighty figure from the Tianji Pavilion.

Was it really… Jiang Fan?

Xia Chaoge was momentarily stunned, then burst into laughter:

“I almost forgot, Martial Uncle’s greatest skill is neither medicine nor martial arts.”

“But rather, hiding his true abilities.”

It seemed that every time they met, Martial Uncle always gave her a fresh feeling.

No matter how well you thought you knew him, he always had a new side to show.

Meanwhile, Jiang Fan was still deep in thought.

He wondered if the group he met earlier, led by Jian Linyuan, were also disciples of the Tianji Pavilion.

But upon hearing Xia Chaoge’s teasing remarks,

He chuckled: “Chaoge, aren’t you also hiding your true abilities?”

Xia Chaoge regarded him with a puzzled look.

Jiang Fan turned to the spiritual horse walking alongside: “What did you call me earlier?”

The spiritual horse blinked its big eyes: “Brother Jiang Fan.”

“Earlier than that.”

“Let me think… a pervert? That— that was what my master said, it had nothing to do with me!”

The spiritual horse heartlessly sold Xia Chaoge out.

Jiang Fan looked at her with a half-smile: “Talking behind your Martial Uncle’s back.”

“That’s not quite like your usual demeanor.”

Liang Feiyan, listening from the side, was utterly amazed, as if re-meeting Xia Chaoge.

Xia Chaoge was famously serene, neither happy nor sorrowful, like a fairy who did not partake in the affairs of mortals.

Gossiping behind someone’s back was something she would disdain to do.

Xia Chaoge’s delicate body stiffened slightly, then she softly scolded the spiritual horse: “When did I ever slander Martial Uncle like that?”

“What I meant to say was…”

She stumbled over her words, clearly, that wasn’t a good phrase either.

The spiritual horse shrank its neck and knocked its head with a hoof: “Right, right, I got it wrong.”

“Not a pervert.”

“A gentleman of flowers!”

Pfft—

Jiang Fan almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Was there a difference in meaning?

It was just that the latter wasn’t as straightforward.

Xia Chaoge blushed deeply.

Her red lips pressed tightly together, unable to suppress her embarrassment.

For the first time in her life, she had gossiped about someone to a spiritual horse.

And it instantly reached that person’s ears.

She had lost more face today than in the past decade combined.

She murmured: “I didn’t really slander you, Martial Uncle.”

“Martial Uncle indeed has many beautiful women around him.”

Liang Feiyan immediately pounded his thigh and said through gritted teeth: “Junior Sister Xia, you finally spoke the truth!”

“Junior Brother Jiang does have an endless stream of stunning women around him.”

“A gentleman of flowers is no misnomer!”

Jiang Fan laughed and chided him.

He patted Bai’s head, urging it to set off.

Seven days later.

After a long trek.

Jiang Fan finally arrived at the frontlines.

The sight that greeted him was beyond shocking!

A towering ancient wall, a hundred feet high, reaching into the clouds, stretched for thousands of miles to the left and right, without an end in sight!

It looked like a colossal serpent lying across the sky.

The wall was covered with the worn scars of age.

Great traces of destruction had left large marks.

And some sections bore ancient bloodstains, dried and turned into black smudges over the aeons.

“Is this something humans could build?”

Jiang Fan was overwhelmed with awe.

Liang Feiyan also gazed in shock, saying: “Of course not!”

“Building a hundred-foot-tall wall to encircle a city is within our capability.”

“But this is a Great Wall, stretching for thousands of miles!”

Xia Chaoge stood up, looking solemnly at the wall.

“This was built in ancient times by all races on the continent to resist the ancient giants.”

“Only by uniting the strength of all races could such an epic monument be created.”

Jiang Fan was familiar with the ancient giants.

They were the dreadful entities that nearly brought all life to the brink of extinction.

To preserve the spark of life, all races had to build such a grand fortress.

He felt a tinge of tragic heroism.

The races must have been in utter despair back then.

Ironically,

after the giants were vanquished, the races didn’t get along well at all.

Fighting broke out in front of this historic symbol of unity.

“That mountain in the middle is Boundary Mountain,” Xia Chaoge pointed out.

Jiang Fan followed her finger’s direction.

A magnificent snow-covered mountain, also a hundred feet tall, came into his view.

The mountain’s belly had been hollowed out.

Made into a large gate that could be closed, facilitating the mobilization of ancient armies.

It served as the city gate.

Due to the ravages of time, the gate had long decayed and fallen apart.

Several of the strong human warriors were guarding the pass at its gate.

Because the gate was narrow, only one demon beast could pass at a time.

The human warriors could form a line of ten or more.

This gave the human defenders a significant advantage.

It created a situation where one man could hold off a thousand.

However,

the demon beasts were not easy opponents.

Unable to pass through the gate, some beasts excelled at climbing over the hundred-foot-tall Boundary Mountain.

So human warriors patrolled all around Boundary Mountain.

Fierce battles erupted frequently.

Evidently, both sides were fiercely contesting the mountain.

At that moment,

a sudden roar came from the peak of Boundary Mountain.

Jiang Fan and his companions immediately looked over.

They saw a group of agile ape-like demonic beasts successfully break through the defenses and climb over the mountain.

They numbered seven or eight in total.

Upon landing, they swiftly dispersed in multiple directions, delving deeper into human territory.

The human warriors below quickly reacted and gave chase.

But these mountain-sized apes, despite their bulk, were remarkably nimble.

Among the chasing warriors, only two managed to catch up and engage two of the apes in combat.

The remaining five continued to flee in different directions.

Jiang Fan’s eyes glinted with a smile: “Isn’t this perfect?”

“Six Core Formation Realm first-level beast kings.”

“Let’s see who can gather the most demon cores!”

Liang Feiyan showed a hint of competition.

In the past, he wouldn’t have entertained such thoughts.

After seeing Jiang Fan slaughter fifty beast kings, bloodied and unyielding, like a towering wall,

he felt utterly daunted.

Now it’s different!

In the past seven days, with the help of the clam meat,

he had reached the Fourth Layer of Core Formation.

Though still not a match for Jiang Fan,

he now had some grounds for comparison!

“Alright!” Liang Feiyan promptly chased after one of the ape beast kings.

Xia Chaoge patted Bai’s back, using the force to leap into the air.

She grinned mischievously at Jiang Fan: “If Martial Uncle wins, Chaoge won’t call you a gentleman of flowers anymore!”

Jiang Fan’s lips twitched.

It’s not over yet!

He shook his head.

Targeting an ape demonic beast king speeding away.

He casually performed a Sword Control Technique.

Without looking at the result, he swiftly pursued another ape demonic beast king.

“Thunder Dragon Lightning Leg!”

He stomped it and immediately eyed another beast king.

At this moment,

Liang Feiyan had successfully slain his beast king.

Xia Chaoge had also quickly killed two more!

Only one ape demonic beast king remained, and all three of them focused on it.

It was scared out of its wits.

What’s going on?

Just crossed the Great Wall and encountered three terrifying individuals?

Five out of six companions were killed in an instant?

It shivered.

It suddenly turned and ran back toward Boundary Mountain, wailing.

At this moment, it only wanted to go home to its mother.

Xia Chaoge smiled slightly.

She suddenly demonstrated a movement technique of remarkable skill!

She covered ten feet in one step!

She almost matched Jiang Fan!

Coincidentally,

the ape beast king ran in her direction.

Jiang Fan, being far away, had no time to catch up.

Liang Feiyan slapped his thigh: “Ah, Junior Sister Xia got the upper hand.”

“But when did she learn a movement technique?”

Xia Chaoge quickly reached the ape beast king.

With a delicate hand, she executed a powerful palm technique.

It was of mid earth-level quality!

She smiled triumphantly at Jiang Fan in the distance: “Chaoge wins!”

However,

just as she spoke,

the ape beast king in front of her seemed controlled by some force.

It was suddenly dragged back into the air.

And in mid-air, something terrifyingly slashed it into pieces.

Jiang Fan leisurely gathered the Heavenly Mountain Silk strands scattered on the ground, saying playfully:

“Is it that easy to win against your Martial Uncle?”

Xia Chaoge paused, then smiled ruefully.

“I forgot, Martial Uncle’s greatest trait is hiding his true abilities.”

See,

he just displayed another technique she had never seen before.

At that moment,

a group of people approached from the direction of Boundary Mountain.

The leaders were two elders and a group of Nine-Sect disciples.

They all looked dissatisfied.

“The disciples of the Tianji Pavilion are becoming increasingly brazen!”

“Snatching merits so openly, do they even give the Nine-Sect disciples a chance?”

The Second Elder of the Supreme Sect, Lu Xiunian, fumed angrily.

Another elder, from the Green Cloud Sect’s Heavenly Sword Peak, Shi Kaitian, was also incensed:

“I want to see which Tianji Pavilion disciples are so shameless!”